If the Senate GOP's health care plan were to pass, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 22 million more people be uninsured by 2026. That figure includes around 15 million people with Medicaid, the program that offers insurance to low-income people, those with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations. Obviously, this is horrifying. But according to Kellyanne Conway, there a solution for many of those who would be negatively affected by the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). During an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday morning, the White House counselor offered some entirely unhelpful advice to Americans who would lose their coverage if the GOP successfully rolls back the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion: Get jobs that include employer-offered health insurance.

"Obamacare took Medicaid, which was designed to help the poor, the needy, the elderly, the sick, disabled, also children and pregnant women, it took it and went way above the poverty line to many able-bodied Americans who should probably find other—at least see if there are other options for them," Conway told ABC's George Stephanopolous. "If they are able-bodied and they want to work, then they'll have employer-sponsored benefits like you and I do."

The Medicaid expansion extended the program to apply to Americans below 138 percent of the federal poverty line (the federal poverty line is $12,060 for one person in 2017). It was supposed to be a national change, but a June 2012 Supreme Court ruling made it optional, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. As of September 2016, 19 states had not yet expanded their programs, but the Medicaid expansion still offered coverage to millions of people who didn't previously have health insurance.

Contrary to what Conway apparently thinks, the majority of those who are enrolled in the ACA's Medicaid expansion do already have jobs. The thing is that they're low-paying and precarious positions that don't necessarily offer health insurance. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, "Among Medicaid adults (including parents and childless adults, the group targeted by the Medicaid expansion) nearly 8 in 10 live in working families, and a majority are working themselves."

In fact, 59 percent of those who qualify for the Medicaid expansion work either part-time, full-time, or have temporary jobs. But of those women and men, only 30 percent have access to health insurance through their employer.

Though President Donald Trump repeatedly promised not to cut Medicaid during his campaign, the Senate's plan would drastically roll back Medicaid, and the federal government would contribute less money to the states participating in the program. Reports indicate that Medicaid would lose over $800 billion in funding, leaving the health care of an estimated 15 million vulnerable men, women, and children in complete jeopardy. However, according to Conway, the health care bill isn't actually making cuts to Medicaid; it is, instead, "slowing the rate of growth in the future" and giving individual governors "more flexibility."

Conway's comments were demonstrably false and drew ire from elected officials and policy experts on both sides of the aisle. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Stephanopolous that she "respectfully" disagrees with Conway's analysis. Although the CBO's score of the Senate's health care bill was not yet public, Collins said that she had "very serious concerns" about how the bill would affect those on Medicaid. Her instincts were, unfortunately, right on target.